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title: The administration of Yahya Jammeh changed the long-form name to Isl… — The Gambia · tree and pragmatics
description: The administration of Yahya Jammeh changed the long-form name to Islamic Republic of the Gambia in December 2015. Who acts: administration. A sentence of Wikipedia's «The Gambia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# The Gambia, sentence 31

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From Wikipedia, [«The Gambia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gambia), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The administration of Yahya Jammeh changed the long-form name to Islamic Republic of the Gambia in December 2015.

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**Who acts:** administration · **What happens:** change, administer · **To what, where:** form name, Yahya

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «The Gambia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (administration), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:The_Gambia:31
# text = The administration of Yahya Jammeh changed the long-form name to Islamic Republic of the Gambia in December 2015.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	administration	administration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Yahya	Yahya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	Jammeh	Jammeh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Gambia	Gambia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
20	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past | the administration of Yahya | the form name |  |  | december | to Islamic Republic of the Gambia | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 2 | **administer** |  |  | Yahya |  |  |  |  | nom administration «act transitive»: of=patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «The Gambia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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